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July 14, 2015

Flash in a fat-legged beetle's leg

This is a fat-legged beetle Oedemera nobilis, also known as a flower beetle:

Look at that lovely metallic colour:

I took some shots with flash and some without, and you can see me and the flash reflected in the fat leg! The whole bug is 10mm in length so I reckon the fat bit is only around 2mm X 1.5mm and I'm about 0.3mm here: